The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that ...

This video covers a chaotic and unintentionally hilarious confrontation between a group of flat earthers and a genuine scientific powerhouse—someone armed with real data, real physics, and actual ...

When someone asks if you're a good parallel parker, there should be no hesitation, because you already know. You're either a Parallel Parking Wu-Tang Master, sliding into that spot with silent swagger ...

Horizontal lines run left to right, parallel to the horizon, with slope 0 and equation y = k. Vertical lines run top to bottom, perpendicular to the horizon, with undefined slope and equation x = k.

Can you imagine the imprint a four-dimensional hexagon might leave as it passes through your three-dimensional kitchen table? Probably not, but some people can. One such person was mathematician ...

Depicted above are four parallel lines and two transversals. The parallel lines are intercepted by the two skew transversals. The lengths of the transversal segments are provided. Find the value of y ...

“I think that maybe it’s not two circles but one,” says Sebastian, the protagonist of Edward St Aubyn’s scintillating new novel Parallel Lines to his newly discovered sister, Olivia. They are looking ...

Edward St. Aubyn’s five-book cycle, the Patrick Melrose novels, published between 1992 and 2011 and now widely recognized as a classic of British literature, covers a lot of territory in the chronicle ...

Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that you’re doing and the precision that you’re expecting. This post covers five ...

Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually ...